Architecting User-centric Privacy-as-a-set-of-services ― Digital Identity-related Privacy Framework

How could privacy play a key role in protecting digital identities? How could we merge privacy law, policies, regulations and technologies to protect our digital identities in the context of connected devices and distributed systems? In this book, the author addresses major issues of identity protection and proposes a service-oriented layered framework to achieve interoperability of privacy and secure distributed systems. The framework is intended to distill privacy-related digital identity requirements (business interoperability) into a set of services, which in turn can be implemented on the basis of open standards (technical interoperability). The adoption of the proposed framework in security projects and initiatives would decrease complexities and foster understanding and collaborations between business and technical stakeholders. This work is a step toward implementing the author’s vision of delivering cyber security as a set of autonomous multi-platform hosted services that should be available upon user request and on a pay-per-use basis.

Dr. Ghazi Ben Ayed is a scientific researcher in the field of cyber-security, he’s committed in conducting interdisciplinary research towards making the digital world a safer and a forgiving place. He has many years of progressive teaching, academic and research experiences in North of America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. He holds a Doctorate in Information Systems from University of Lausanne, Switzerland; M.Sc. degree in E-commerce (major: Informatics) from University of Montreal, Canada; Management/Leadership graduate certificates from McGill University, Montreal, Canada and Bachelor in Business Informatics from University of Tunis, Tunisia. He authored multiple publications in ACM, IEEE, and Springer; and he transferred knowledge and diffused cutting edge results to research community and enterprises. In the beginning of his career he played ERP consulting key roles in several projects in Canada and USA and as R&D developer. G. Ben Ayed’s current research interests include digital identity, privacy, service-oriented security, digital reputation, trust, Big Data and digital identity hiding.